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with. the week's top stories the apparent use of chemical weapons against civilians humanitarian crisis stranded refugees and yet more deaths the reality for the libyan town of bani walid this week for the residents there are calling for international help as pro-government militias continue to shell before stronghold. has been gathering eyewitness accounts from the town i should warn you you may find some of the following images. these are the pictures the world has chosen not to see dismembered bodies random killings dying women and children for three weeks the libyan city of bani walid has been under siege armed militia gangs patrolled the streets looting houses bulldozing properties and shooting indiscriminately if you want to you're almost buying machinery by tankers people are so concerned for the

safety of their families they don't want to be identified. it was chaotic shelling they fired at harbors and shelters indiscriminately more than two thousand families have fled seven families are with us at the moment yes they were fled to the valley but they were firing into even that there are families who died in the shelling children died too they fired by women and children straight to the head it's time to put me with lots of the army to use all means necessary to rid the former gadhafi stronghold of what his supporters there were accused of kidnappings and murdering a former militia man credited with capturing the libyan leader last year i would nurses and doctors on the scene say people are being fired at with gas pulled the shells r.t. sources report seeing militia trying to hide and remove the bodies of those killed by chemical weapons and i can confirm these militias used internationally prohibited weapons they used phosphorous bombs nerve gas we have documented all

these in videos recorded the missiles they used on the white phosphorus raining down from these missiles many people died without being wounded shot they died as a result of gases the red cross is to me it's more than twenty five thousand people have so far been made homeless with fiji's who in the confusion of the past few days trying to return home after the army announced the city had fallen and they're now stranded on the desert highway in fear and panic look at this the people there . this is good this gun and this people know this shutting out why you don't know one week now this neighborhood go outside and doesn't know what the were doing when i was leaving when i think when when one of the government. i saw explosions and rockets about our heads i saw the dad. but the general national council denies the killings despite the evidence to the country where the government for third. place where i would go of course they will be. flowing mistakes

but the whole picture the whole thing is being handled better for the. taking care of all the family and it's not only the libyan authorities that are in denial western governments and mainstream media have also chosen to be silent prompting the charge of double standards to be leveled at them when it is their. militias who were. criticizing militias the chaotic scenes or throwback to the long running rivalry between residents of bani walid and misrata a city could. they also show the weakness of the new government's authority over former rebel militias which only to legions but essentially do what they. are so

it's a leech is a message to all of them across libya. however strong. your back is the revolution you should win. it's a year since independence came to this oil rich country but little seems to have changed for ordinary libyans many of the crimes gadhafi was accused of are now being laid at the foot of the general national council a reminder that for many the arab spring turned out to be a very cold winter. here r.t. beirut. russia has called on the united nations security council to the libyan authorities to resolve the bani walid conflict peacefully the proposal however was blocked by the u.s. which of course took part in the bombing campaign last year under the guise of protecting civilians from the then leader. the report now from new york city's marina portnoy. while the united nations has focused much attention this week on the ongoing conflicts in syria and mali russia's efforts to address the death and

destruction taking place in libya was blocked by the united states washington refused to support a security council press statement drafted by russia calling for the resolution of violence in bani walid which has been under siege for weeks the u.s. delegation cited a further need for consultations but meanwhile the russian ambassador to the u.n. the tali churkin says that it's quite strange the u.s. would block a press statement condemning the use of force in dealing with libya's political problems just one month after i deadly attack in benghazi claimed the lives of four diplomats embassador churkin said it is difficult in this case to explain the u.s. delegations actions in a rational terms now russia's draft press statement calls on the libyan authorities to take urgent steps to resolve the conflict by peaceful means and to preserve the rights of all libyan citizens that also expressed concern about the significant escalation of violence in and around the city of miami will leave well here we are

all keeping a very close eye on the volunteer round but i want to lead we will keep you up to date with the developments in and around the besieged. it's good to have you with us here on our to today tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of italy and spain on saturday in anger over tough economic measures being forced upon them of a show of discontent turned ugly in one northern italian town where police used tear gas and buttons to disperse the crowds but it's all to serve reports the struggling public is still determined to get its message. getting back at a stereo say people a year or continuing to fight against this a measures that are biting deeper and deeper into the public and private of many usa nations clashes with police break out in the north of italy of thousands marched against the government in the

capital the movies and the monte de similar things we witnessed in the trades west bank is turned on the us to rally against never ending government cuts but we feel like we are number a percentage by our government that they are doing this that we are no we don't agree with them and we are telling them on the diamond but they don't listen as he is starting anger spread across year thousands of people have taken to the street and it's not just in madrid for in greece to italy big here is in countries and small this is the year a crisis that doesn't discriminate affecting people of all ages and from all walks of life here in spain the unemployment figures now top a whopping twenty five percent this is a younger generation that's been hit the hardest you look at stats for the country you see the heart of the sixteen to twenty four year olds in the house of work

everything you see presumed unemployment poverty. the ferns the processing in people here police offices. dividing the protesters from the governments that more and more thank you are going to live with that of g.t. you'll find many of them joining the march is even lower enforcement a feeling the pinch the need amongst many protesters is greg craig dean had many times before and still they tell us nothing seems to change. is actually not to cut their spending money to invest more in the economy to invest in growth to make sure that there are jobs and the only way to ultimately. get out of this is to grow your way out not to cut your way out of it so one of the main arguments of the people here is that if you actually listen to the people who are not you good interest from abroad you would come up with a lot more sensible a lot more rational response to this a dogmatic insistence on

a staring see this in successive governments across the isolated from their electorate and amongst the u.n. members themselves divisions why did they things witnessing this independently pennsylvania in the basque country those demanding freedom and electing separatist politicians the police is fighting enough surge of radical nationalist sentiment is leading to the great far right and fascist greets scenes like these make it hard to believe that earlier this month even is awarded to peace prize bringing stability and unity to the previously want to own continent some protest is calling it the safe. with a massive euro white strike planned for later this month it seems as long as things continue as they are they'll be named keith here thursday. police in greece have arrested a journalist who published

a list of the country's political and business elite who hold swiss bank accounts and that was a blow accuses the greek government of failing to go after tax evaders while at the same time preparing to push through more belt tightening measures for the struggling population we can discuss this further now with the eyes of a professor of economics at the university of athens all joining us live here on r t a pleasure to see you today let's talk about this arrest here the arrest being criticized in greece as an attack on free journalism when the authorities ultimately should be attacking tax evaders what's your reaction to that. i'm a gust this development. really investigated it bordering greece has been arrested for effectively serving the public interest because this least that. is the center of contention at the moment let us not forget the history behind it it was sent by mrs

god when she was france's minister of finance to the great minister of finance to do and a half years ago. the good government should be given the opportunity to investigate people who are named look at least for possible tax evasion there's no doubt that most of the people of that beast are not guilty of anything you just a list of swiss bank accounts help make it is as if one particular bank h.s.b.c. in geneva and the idea that mr god has was that the government should investigate to see if some of those accounts could not be justified in terms of their legitimate but i'm sort of as you're saying that it's been two years since christine legarde handed over this list of tax evaders to greece there's been little if any action ever ever since then why why is the government so sluggish in going after tax evaders when it needs money so badly. well your guess is as good as

mine but the vast majority of the good lation fear. politicians are seemed really. keen to expose the network of court action which in will. good logic stand politicians and businessmen and women who are in cahoots and have a cozy relationship with them now the fact here is that in the last two months this list is the center of debate because the former the two former finance minister be exposed for having sat on that list for two years now and they are trying to explain away why they were sitting on it to try to blame the facts of what it is they say that they've passed it on to the docs and it is not investigate meanwhile positive and it is the journalists at the center of today's storm got hold of this list and did what any journalist has any journalist would like to do and hope to do

it in a society of free speech alternately being arrested for once again presenting it as alistair has been around for two years but can i ask you do you talk about tax evasion you talk about the bankers talk about the politicians who is in bed with who are here unless they're all in the same bed together. look good. but not only greece. has had politically which was very closely intertwined with the business of it and let's not beat about the bush the great problem with tax evasion in greece which by the way i don't think is that he says that it gets but nevertheless it is one of the reasons why greece is being portrayed and asked me. a corrupt country and beaks on the street be their taxes and really hard and suffering incensed that this is what it will do it internationally. the fact that for the last thirty forty years they reach us

have eggs. have enjoyed a kind of tax immunity they're not really. new not from tax because those relations . legislate in a way that makes that. i do say so so basically you know the bankers the politicians are tax evaders they are ultimately in bed together they're in their elitist circles of protecting each other but all it does is basically add to the growing frustration among the struct struggling grapes on how the government is handling the country's economic troubles i get the impression your saying that ultimately the greek government is indifferent to what the people think about them . they're far more interested in being caught by. you know the long arm of the law themselves they are far more interested in covering up the. bank accounts look for three years

during this crisis will be imposed upon the vast majority of workers who'll have no alternative but to pay their tax politicians. are pointing moralizing fingers that we can members of fix or say saying no you have not been painted x. you've been vaccinated this is why i said you don't will state to now to do this coming out of their tax evasion and about the fact that tax evasion is again played very skillfully and as it has been happening for the last thirty or forty years now live. to be idle in the face of such a list well and i'm sure it comes as no surprise to colleagues who walk in the same circles as they do we were just showing pictures here from october the eighteenth as you were speaking over the eighteenth of downtown athens i once again people on the streets showing their frustration and again perhaps showing as well that the

politicians really have no ear for that of the public but if i guess the professor of economics at the university of athens a pleasure to have you on r.t. today thank you. well still to come for you a bit later on the program here on artsy and unconditional apology that washington is on willing to make after a high ranking pakistani politician was pulled off a flight to new york and questioned by u.s. officials about his views on unmanned drone a times. also voting in ukraine promises to throw up at least a few surprises as heavyweights from the world of boxing and politics make their way into all of that and much more after this short. nineteen iranian channels have been banned in the countries that schools are in for

not tolerating free speech among other things well played lads well played i love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning personally but of censorship doesn't bother me that much because there has always been censorship and there were always be censorship if there are any words or symbols or opinions that could get you bumped off the air or legal trouble in your country then guess what you have censorship sorry to say it but that's how it is i don't mind a country saying that there is something so antithetical to their way of life that it must be banned i'm fine with that that's your business in your country and you should be able to protect your culture and your values but don't lie to me and tell me that you live censorship free when you don't it's your choice you let your reading channels back on the air or come out of the closet and admit you believe in restricted speech but that's just my opinion.

of the united states this week fail to bring any clarity as to who is likely to be the next president of the democrat and republican candidates are effectively neck and neck some diversity was brought into the race by the third debates which offered a different slant on the key issues only it was one of the very few media outlets taking any notice of the highlights. the president has assumed dictatorial rights to put us in prison at his pleasure without charge or without trial we are on the road toward to him and that's not an exaggeration the biggest threat to our national security is the fact that we're bankrupt we need to retrench rather than trying to be the policeman of the world we need to put an end to the

use of drones and actually lead not to lead this development of a new arms race but to lead in an international treaty and the convention to permanently banned the use of drones we're printing and borrowing money to the tune of forty three cents out of every dollar we spend. sixteen trillion dollars is bearing down on us and as johnson say if we could well be like germany after world war i. well the final face off of a third party presidential candidates will be brought to you exclusively by in a week's time the two front runners came together for the debate this week focusing on u.s. foreign policy but those who were expecting a tough clash of words were left disappointed with barack obama and mitt romney and once again displaying some striking similarities and see war activist there brian becker predicts that u.s. policy will just stay the same regardless of who is at the helm. u.s. foreign policy regardless of whether the party in the white house is the

republicans or the democrats is consistent based on principally the military industrial complex and big oil i think if we take the debate and the reflective positions of the two candidates and staged it as a theatrical production we would we would borrow the words of william shakespeare and say it's much ado about nothing fundamentally the two candidates represent a foreign policy based on the new empire the american empire that superceded the british empire at the close of world war two i think the candidates have to be very careful because while they want to position themselves as the best defenders of the empire the best defenders of the military industrial complex they also have to recognize that the american people are sick and tired of war after war after war and sick and tired of having the national treasury drained so that tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of public sector workers jobs are lost but the military coffers keep growing and growing. and our special coverage of the u.s.

presidential campaign will continue on air and online introducing a fresh perspective on the race every week starting this coming monday will be exploring america's domestic policies and challenges that if you can do stay with us here and see for. what lies ahead for you will the movement mobilize cools for a new american who stands for the ninety nine percent who is election day close go . to twenty million on our t.v. . it's good to have you with us on our tour today a high profile pakistani politician emraan kong has been interrogated by u.s. officials over his and drone viewers pulled off a plane to new york yet to explain the details of his campaign against deadly american airstrikes in pakistan the former cricket star has asked for an apology but as authors are going to go to school reports washington remains on repentant

about its ongoing controversial program. killing the civilians of one country in the name of security of another the united states has been doing just that for over eighteen years in pakistan. there are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered three thousand americans they are plotting to strike again federally administered tribal areas burn bright red on the map that's where u.s. drone attacks have been killing thousands of people claiming the majority of them are militant extremists a study by scholars from new york and stanford university's found that only around two percent of the total number of deaths were militants among the remaining several thousand victims of drone attacks and even seventy five were children the fact of the matter remains the u.s. has been carrying out military operations in the country that it is not a tour with and the international community says almost nothing about actions which are illegal by international standards the u.s.

seems to have two options either stop the thing that's in some sense from the talks . financial aid and possibly join the ranks of thinks that the was the odd choice since that's why it's. this stuff that's going to date islam about in washington we're all smiles each seeking to benefit from cooperation centered on dealing with the persistent problem though there was a cool off in the relationship in the one nine hundred seventy s. when pakistan began working on its nuclear bomb the valves were removed in the quake. the two thousand and one world trade center bombing and the ensuing war on terror presently however there seems to be no love lost and is now doing strikes an order. to productive but it couldn't on the one strikes. again focus on solving the. it's not just the buzzing of the drones however that threatens pakistan's integrity but was great as one of the greatest feats of the

fight against terrorism this as a nation of islam of bin laden was a military operation carried out in secret and without the knowledge of the pakistani authorities. here. then came the killing of twenty four pakistani soldiers and the u.s. led air strike forcing islam abroad to close down the nato supply route for seven months it was reopened only after an official apology from the u.s. secretary of state was that pakistan itself calls to cut off cooperation or submission as many see it to the u.s. get clouded with every passing week pakistanis believe the united states may be getting a lot of money at the time but he's at the same time taking away the country's sovereignty and killing its people in islamabad it in english go. ukraine is electing a new parliament for the new voting system in place allowing room for some

surprises as. the reports form up boxing champion and his party may end up with enough political weight to make or even break the opposition. after what was the most expensive election in the history of silver in ukraine worth more than two billion dollars polling stations of opened across the country as thirty six million voters in ukraine will elect its new parliament the outcome of this election is very much unpredictable mainly because it's a completely new voting system and the result of the election may go either way there are many independent candidates which are not belonging to any party and they eventually could have final say inside the parliament and will be able to choose which lines of parties there will be joining in the new coalition a coalition which can actually spell big trouble for the current version. of the opposition in ukraine has already declared to the president if they gain a majority in parliament in one way or another the biggest dark horse of this election

is the former boxer who is now finished his career heavyweight champion of the world. he made a surprising rice through the political ranks in ukraine just a year ago imagine his party stood at less than two percent of the votes now different opinion polls put his party at second place and many say that it will be klitschko who will eventually have the final say in the forming of a new coalition inside the parliament certainly we'll we'll be bringing all the latest results in this rather interesting vote as we get them just a couple of minutes or so you will be showing you a special report on the test legacy of the u.k. left behind in australia this is a hot. gracefully . it is

a way of life traditionally the people are. herders. they are also highly skilled and organized. and. depending. on the day we found this particular camp they were settled near the coast of the sea here for families work together to manage nearly a thousand. people and. they can use almost every single part of the. year is a means of transportation. for the. little life in the tundra.